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This portable and practical pocket guide is an essential primer to capnography for those studying for and practising within the emergency medical services, as well as a convenient reference for other emergency department personnel, helping clinical staff to apply the tool promptly and to correctly interpret the displays to enhance care.
List of contents
1. Basic Capnography Review. 2. Airway Management. 3. Respiratory Emergencies. 4. Cardiac Emergencies. 5. Medical Emergencies. 6. Shock. 7. Trauma. 8. Neurological Emergencies. 9. Differential Diagnosis: Capnogram. 10. Differential Diagnosis: Capnometry. 11. Clinical Scenarios. 12. Study Question Answers.
About the author
Hugh Greenbaum, BS, NRP is an Emergency Medical Services (EMS) paramedic with Forest View Volunteer Rescue Squad, a 9-1-1 response agency in the US State of Virginia, with more than 39 years of experience as a volunteer EMS provider. He is certified as an EMS Education Coordinator in Virginia and teaches Emergency Medical Technician (EMT) classes for his agency. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Information and Computer Science from the University of California, Irvine. He was a part-time faculty member in the Department of Computer Science at California State University, Fullerton, and retired from a 40-year career in systems and software engineering.
Summary
This portable and practical pocket guide is an essential primer to capnography for those studying for and practising within the emergency medical services, as well as a convenient reference for other emergency department personnel, helping clinical staff to apply the tool promptly and to correctly interpret the displays to enhance care.
